The Journalism Education Association (JEA) and Flipboard are aiming to showcase some of the best digital journalism being produced by high school students. Each month five to 10 stories will be selected for the magazine. These winners will get published in the magazine and get a FLIPBOARD t-shirt. This magazine is embedable on any site and will hopefully be used as a teaching resource. The current magazine is filled with NSPA multimedia stories of the year. Stories or videos or any good high school journalism with a link is sought for the magazine. Sorry no PDFs.

Flipboard and the JEA invite any high school journalist in the United States to submit his or her best work, created between Sept. 1, 2015, and Sept. 30, 2016, for consideration in the magazine. The stories must be previously published elsewhere, such as on a school’s Website. Links should be sent to [email protected], where they will reviewed by a small panel of journalism professionals who will carefully consider things like:

• Subject newsworthiness (ie, is the topic “newsworthy”?)
• Treatment of the subject matter (ie, does the story do more than inform? does it have a purpose and a point of view?)
• Technical merit (ie, is the story easy to understand? is copy error-free?)

Each month, we’ll flip up to 10 of the best stories into the magazine and everyone who gets “flipped” will receive a one-of-a-kind T-shirt from Flipboard the following month. We’ll also feature the magazine and some of its stories in highly read places like Flipboard Picks, in our blog and on social media. At the end of the year-long showcase, we’ll select five “stories of the year” for the ultimate kudos and red carpet treatment.

Which students will be the first-ever to receive this recognition from Flipboard and the JEA? There’s only one way to find out: follow the magazine and see!

To submit stories e-mail the Flipboard JEA team at…

[email protected]